ABSTRACT
City in Transgression points to the city in mobility. Instability of order and the radical turn take up the idea of transgression, previously circumvented by short durations of movement, for a new contravention of city space. Formulizing an elastic from the present static urbanity, calls for new orders of transformative spaces to emerge. On the one hand these spaces are destabilized, dislocated and dissociated from the plan and on the other hand are crossings, transgressions and expansions; forming renewed social and spatial relations across society and city. Section one Instability of Order makes the argument that transgression causes a new order for the city based on spatial opportunity, invention, and adaptation of the urban plan rather than via capital and ownership. It applies how transgression is translated through adaptation and innovation by the homeless, refugees, and asylum seekers in camps, on streets, under bridges, between buildings and vacant lots in forming their habitat by bridging these transit zones of non-places into spaces of occupation. Section two The Radical Turn is concerned with how to apply the formerly visible yet non-aligned spaces of the homeless, asylum seekers, and migrants as being an integral part of city urban planning. Section three Infrastructure Edges looks to how the lines of borders and boundaries can be broken to acquire inhabited space over neutral ground where neither property nor capital dominate.
